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| | J. Alexander Gunn - Modern French Philosophy |
 | | One of the chief necessities, he points out, an essential to any progressive measure would be to moralise our modern notion of the state. |
 | | This same book, however, we must note, marks a stage in Renouvier's own thought different from his doctrines in the earlier Essais de Critique générale, and this later philosophy, of which the Monadologie and Personnalisme are the two most notable volumes, displays an attempt to look upon progress from a more ultimate standpoint. |
 | | His théodicée here involves the notion, seen in Ravaisson, of an early perfection, involving a subsequent "fall," the world now, with its guerre universelle, being an intermediate stage between a perfect or harmonious state in the past and one which lies in the future. |
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